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...Morea reaches out a hand as if asking for help and says, "Some of these kids won't live a few more years. We need some space to work things...
Lebensraum could be the political cry of the street hips. When he was in New York, Morea and his Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers literally battled the police for control of the Lower East Side. This summer he moved to Boston, where the street hip community has been engaged in a hassle over sleeping rights on the Boston Common. After receiving many complaints from Charles St. merchants and residents, White slapped a curfew on the Common. Night after night, there were dozens of arrests. Some nights, there was violence. One of those nights, Morea got embroiled in a massive street...
...Sure, hippies are armed," Morea says. "When the hippie movement began with flower children from the upper middle class, there were no arms, but the new hip movement is buttressed by the lower middle class and the lower class too, where they know about weapons." To Morea, now a social and political philosopher, the hip's thing is "to build our own community, one which can protect itself...
...MOREA'S dilemma is that his people have picked up weapons without picking up enough support to make the weapons matter. The street hip community--which does not include the flower child hippie, "who is still tied to property relationships"--never got over 200 in Boston this summer. Near the end, after several weeks of pounding from the police, it was down to fewer than 20. With so few troops, weapons are meaningless, unless the hips take to the hills and employ insurrectionist tactics...
...Morea is hardly a guerrilla fighter. All he wants is for the hips to be left alone, so they can carry out what he considers to be "a social revolution." The police, however, "can't allow us to grow, because what we're about calls into question everything they stand...